Conflate vs Conflagrate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between conflate and conflagrate

is that conflate is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity while conflagrate is to catch fire.

is combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.

is a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

(conflat)

To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.

To mix together different elements.

To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.

* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, merge

(-)

(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.

* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :

Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.

(en noun)

(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

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(conflagrat)

To catch fire.

To set fire to something.